Mayor Adams standing outside a business with S B S Commissioner Dynishal Gross and other officials to sign legislation to create new Business Improvement District in East Harlem
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    • Announcement Brings Total Number of BIDs in New York City to 77 
    • Adams Administration Also Awards $4.4 Million in New Grants to Neighborhoods  
      Across Five Boroughs, $44 Million in Total Grants to Revitalize Neighborhoods and  
      Develop Commercial Corridors Now Awarded by SBS Since 2022
Storefronts on Grand Street in Brooklyn
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    The funding will be used to help CBDOs take critical steps to organize and plan BID formations in 17 commercial corridors around the city. This first-of-its-kind BID development program fulfills Mayor Eric Adams's commitment to invest in underserved commercial corridors and foster robust networks of small businesses around the five boroughs as outlined in Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent: A Blueprint for New York City's Economic Recovery.

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    We offer a range of grant programs to help community-based organizations strengthen and revitalize commercial districts.

Neighborhood 360° Fellows and host sites meet and greet working session
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    We strengthen community-based organizations (CBOs) across the five boroughs by partnering with experts in the fields of organization management and leadership skills to provide services and programs.

Neighborhoods

We work with community-based organizations to build vibrant neighborhoods where New Yorkers can shop, work, and live by:

  • Overseeing the largest network of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the country, which delivers more than $187 million in additional services throughout the five boroughs
  • Offering training, tools, and one-on-one assistance to local community-based organizations
  • Administering grant programs to strengthen and revitalize commercial districts
  • Working with community partners to identify local commercial district needs and plan targeted solutions

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